Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [subord] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before we move from discussing the lower levels of language — words , phrases , grammatical categories — to talking about the text as a unit of meaning , it would perhaps be useful to explain briefly what a text is and why we identify a given stretch of language as a text rather than assume that it is a set of unrelated words and sentences . |
| 2 | The role of the organiser is vital in providing careful preparation and support so as to ensure that identifiable outcomes result from the placement . |
| 3 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 4 | So do n't miss our feature on dieting which will help you to lose weight steadily while ensuring that you eat well throughout the year . |
| 5 | I now turn to the submission of Woolwich that your Lordships ' House should , despite the authorities to which I have referred , reformulate the law so as to establish that the subject who makes a payment in response to an unlawful demand of tax acquires forthwith a prima facie right in restitution to the repayment of the money . |
| 6 | The crisis passed , somewhat to my surprise , and I would not dismiss the possibility that Eliot , acting so as to ensure that the information should not be disclosed to me , had something to do with it . |
| 7 | This required taking such steps as arranging the candidate 's schedule so as to ensure that he arrived at campaign stops in time for coverage on the nightly news . |
| 8 | Reasonable accommodation involves the making of modifications or adjustments in the employment process and to the workplace environment so as to ensure that disabled persons are not discriminated against but may enjoy equal employment opportunities with others . |
| 9 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 10 | Gardiner , where the judge was careful to speak in terms of justification rather than insist that a belief be both honest and reasonable . |
| 11 | He visited her none the less , although Jules had no doubt that it was duty rather than love that prompted his assiduous attention . |
| 12 | We must operate on the assumption of health rather than accept that people are unhealthy . |
| 13 | Yes , it boils down to a lot more than ensuring that the innocents are clothed and fed . |
| 14 | Indeed , it was in a mood of celebration rather than panic that the garotters were actually toasted for having ‘ taken upon themselves the duty of upsetting a whole fabric of amiable delusions ’ concerning the reformation of criminals , and further congratulated that through their ‘ inexcusable crime ’ they had made a salutary impact on public opinion and ‘ created a general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ . |
| 15 | Traditional civil-law interpretation would say that it is : the words amount to a demonstratio rather than a causa ; the testator is suggesting a means of satisfying the liability under trust rather than indicating that it is to arise only if the estate of Gaius Seius is entered . |
| 16 | Indeed , Willig suggests that by modifying the structure so as to ensure that HJKL is substantially greater than FEHG , the price p , can be lowered slightly . |
| 17 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) said , the spokesmen got themselves into an even bigger twist over the question whether cost should be the primary basis on which to judge a contract , or whether then to introduce another element so as to ensure that white collar services can be won by the private sector . |
| 18 | The royals take an obscure pride in their penny-pinching , details of which are leaked to the press from time to time so as to suggest that they are , in fact , just like us . |
| 19 | However , if he has disclosed that fact so as to indicate that he is transferring to the purchaser only his own possessory title , then he will not be in breach of the condition , section 12(3) . |